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Focuses on underground press medium prevalent in the U.S. during the 1970's. Views of liberal writers towards underground press publications; Information about papers published by alternative press.

Comments on the content and ideals of newspapers in the U.S. Advantage of a technical training in the weighing of the kind of evidence which does not pass current in the courts; Discussion of the violation of moral law; Accounts on the duties and obligation of the journalists.

The article reports on the improving economic performance of the daily newspaper industry of the U.S. in 1970. John S. Knight, columnist and editorial chairman of Knight Newspapers Inc. (KNI), contends that not a single newspaper that KNI has took control has not improved strongly in circulation, advertising and profitability. An overview of the improving business performance and corporate profit posted by some chains and individual newspapers in the country is provided, including "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," and Times Mirror Co.

The article discusses how Sunday newspapers penetrates the U.S. households. It shows that the typical metropolitan Sunday paper has grown from 111 to 243 pages, however, its news content has shrunk from 11.6% to 6.5%. It emphasizes that the Sunday press is providing a more intelligent re-examination of what happened in the previous week. Scott Newhall, executive editor of the "San Francisco Chronicle," notes Sunday newspaper, is no longer the center of the American Sunday morning.

When U.S. editor and newspaper publisher Roy Howard steered his papers out of their traditional left-of-center channel he was not content to limit his attentions to the editorial columns. The forces that moved Howard to address himself to that upper-crust 5 per cent of the population that Old Man Scripps had warned against could hardly be expected to spend themselves in those dreary wastes-- and they didn't. Scripps-Howard funnies, sports and helpful hints in the kitchen retain their virginity, but not much else has escaped the advances of the editorial censor. Howard denies passionately that he lays a heavy hand on his papers, but his indignation does as much violence to the facts as it does honor to his sensitivity. Particularly long-suffering are the political columnists.

The article focuses on the campaign assigned to newsmen and staff members of the newspaper "Chicago Daily News" by John S. Knight. It states that staff members were divided into teams to market home-delivery subscriptions. It says that 30,000 prizes for subscription sales are brought every week as inspirational reminders, with mailings sent regularly to the wives of editors and reporters promoting door-to-door selling.

The article narrates the author's experience as an interviewer of a newspaper. In early 1917, he began reporting in Chicago, Illinois wherein he regarded his functions, form and performance as limited. He has interviewed a lot of prominent persons and public officials such as the Secretary of Agriculture. He explained that their paper was always embroiled in political feuds.

Any inference that the purchase of stock in the Boston Publishing Company by the International Paper Company means a change in the policy of "The Herald," or the "Traveler," is altogether false. The internal affairs of each paper will remain the same. The policies will remain the same. The aim will remain the same to produce first class publications day by day. "The Herald," and the "Traveler," have real confidence in New England, and they will do everything in their power to make stronger the foundations which support the economic structure of New England.

Focuses on the press in the United States. Views of journalist Heywood Broun of the newspaper "New York World" on rural press and sameness of all newspapers; Views of metropolitan editors on the syndicated columns of small-town papers; Role of syndicates in village press; Report that page one is still the old-time gossip of the village street and its news is local news; View that the metropolitan dailies are getting more and more away from news, and more and more involved in features; Statement that it is the show business that standardizes the city press and fills the village paper with its syndicated columns.

Focuses on issues related to the functioning of journalists in the U.S. Overview of the unchecked power and bias of the press; Assessment of changes in the ownership of newspapers; Overview of constitutional provisions regarding freedom of the press; Suggestions by journalists to restore the credibility of their profession.

Focuses on the issue of journalism in various countries. Funds given by Egyptian government for the construction of a special jail for journalists; Incidence of Georgia editor who faced an armed mob after writing an editorial against Eugene Talmadge's racial-supremacy program; Talks in Washington for establishing bilateral treaties guaranteeing full and free exchanges of information between signatory states; Shortage of newsprints in Argentina; Absence of travel facilities for correspondents, in Moscow; Adherence of Czech papers to the major policies of the Common Front coalition.

Without the benefit of serious advertising, sports regularly splash across more columns than music, art, books and theatre combined and when a baseball promoter stoops to purchase his daily five-line advertisement, he exudes the benign air usually associated with contributions to the American Red Cross. Whether a sport lends more to a newspaper's appeal than the paper's coverage does to that of the sport, is a riddle bruited about for decades. It will not be solved here. For every newspaperman who credits the press with building sports, there is a promoter waiting to point out that big-time .sports have been the papers' most durable circulation crutch since 1910. Both sides are partially correct, and with the vivid emergence of the athletic hero during the fifty-year sports boom in the U.S., has arisen the unique breed of newspapermen called sportswriters.

The article discusses the U.S. government and the press. Big laughing George Carmack, editor of "News-Sentinel," laughed again a few weeks ago when he told a visiting friend that he was on his way to speak to the Rotarians or the Kiwanians on the freedom of the press. George has had the pleasure of turning the News-Sentinel all the way around from the paper in the Scripps- Howard chain which fought on the ground for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to a paper which supports the man who fought TVA all the way. It is not an easy job even for a man with such a continuous muscular merriment as George Carmack.

The author's first connection with the periodical, the Nation as a contributor was when he was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts and practicing law in Boston, Massachusetts and editing with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes the American Law Review. For a year, the author wrote continuously for the paper, sending an article every week from Cambridge, in 1868 or 1869. The author made the acquaintance of its editor, a source of lifelong friendship and instruction, through his brother-in-law, Charles Eliot Norton, who, as editor of the North American Review, had encouraged the author to try his hand at writing and who was one of the most interested promoters of and contributors to the Nation from the beginning. It was understood from the first, of course, that the Nation, was to be essentially different from any of other publications of which the United States had been and continues to be prolific. In turning over the pages of the first numbers, one is struck with the solidity of the literary criticism, and, at the same time, with the remoteness of the world in which it was produced.

Discusses that the newspapers of journalist William Randolph Hearst are on decline. View that the Hearst newspapers no longer have anything like the significance they had in American life a generation ago; Description about the journalistic career of Hearst; Influence of Hearst on American journalism during 1900 to 1910; Existence of a stiff competition faced by the Hearst newspapers from other papers like the "New York Daily News" and the "Chicago Tribune"; Testimony that Hearst no longer sets the pace journalistically is shown by the recent history of his magazines; Argument pertaining to Hearst's influence upon the army of readers of his newspaper.

The Nieman fellows are a selected group of journalists who get a year's sabbatical from newspapers and magazines to meditate in the congenial cloisters of Cambridge. They wrote the book as a. by-product of their seminars on the state of the American press. They have said a. good deal that is worth saying. But the sum of their remarks is disappointing. The authors are finally compelled to describe their projected paper as a combination of the peculiar merits of bug-established dailies. "An ideal newspaper," they conclude, "might perhaps combine the snap and readability of the New York "Daily News," the pictorial excellence of "Life," the thoroughness of the "Times," the human interest and intelligence of the "Herald," "Tribune," and the sense of responsibility of the "Courier-Journal."

The author reflects on the implications of the victory by elected U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on newspaper publishers who have harshly criticized the president during the electoral process. He said that publishers such as W. R. Hearst and writers including Betty Millard and Paul Block are among Roosevelt's detractors. Roosevelt is the subject of accusations regarding social security taxes and his alleged dictatorship. Such newspapers eventually experienced a decline in sales.

This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.

The article profiles Arthur Hays Sulzberger, "New York Times" publisher, president and chairman of the board. He was selected as the Missouri Honor Awardee for his distinguished service in journalism by the University of Missouri. The popularity of the newspaper is described, noting that U.S. President Harry Truman, Pope Pius, diplomats and officials feel compelled to read the publication. Among the improvements in the office under Sulzberger are the addition of dining rooms and bedroom suites for editors.

The article discusses the expertise of Frosty Troy, an editor, publisher and principal reporter of the Oklahoma "Observer." It states that Troy was considered as a rare man among journalists in the region who has scourged major state industries, such as gas, oil and insurance, and has exposed corruption and conflicts of interest in local and state governments in the country. It notes that Troy has also fought against insufficiencies in state mental health programs and correctional institutions. It also cites that Troy's proficiency in the field has greatly affected his paper's future and brought tangible results giving the state a better political and economic system.

Kingsley Martin, for many years editor of the "New Statesman," died suddenly in Cairo, Egypt on February 17, 1969. Before his death he ordered that his body be given to an Egyptian hospital for medical and scientific research. Though the son of a Unitarian minister, he became an agnostic at an early age, and remained one to the end. This was an atypical consistency in a man who, all his life, had been tormented by doubt, and who so often allowed himself to be swayed by the most contradictory influences. "The New Statesman," anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi and pro-Spanish Republic, became the great paper of the younger British intellectuals, so many of whom went to Spain to fight.

This article focuses on C.P. Scott, who has retired from the editorship of the paper "Manchester Guardian." He entered upon the editorship in 1872, it was a newspaper of the second rank in a large provincial English city. Scott has been almost the only survivor of the old tradition of owner-editor, who himself lives by the living word he writes and sells. While this position has its dangers, where ownership comes first, and there are personal axes to grind or interests to serve, it has the inestimable advantage of securing absolute freedom for the current conduct of the paper, and a continuity of policy deriving from the personality of its responsible head.

The article reports on the strike of the pressman at the Detroit Free Press. It notes that the strike was orchestrated by the pressmen of John S. Knight's "The Herald." and resulted to the closing of the paper. However, the Free Press won a court injunction because the picketeers were found guilty of imposing a secondary boycott.

The article recalls the development of the newspaper "Washington Post." The appeal of the paper to journalists is attributed to its rise as one of the most independent paper in Washington, D.C. from its previous scandal sheet image. It mentions the significance of its relocation into a modern plant on L Street. Under the leadership of managing editor Alexander F. Jones, good reporters were hired and a national bureau to cover official Washington was created.

Products of a new spirit of questioning rampant in undergraduate life, the journals of opinion strike an alien note, jarring to deans and presidents. Besides purveying news items they provoke student opinion on vital subjects and jealously guard the undergraduate interests. One after another of them have become embroiled in college controversies over compulsory chapel attendance, compulsory military training, and the issue of academic freedom. Professors have come under the critical eye of the new journalists. Student discussion of college courses has been lifted from the privacy of the "bull session" to publicity hitherto accorded only to championship football teams and junior proms.

Focuses on the present status of journalism in the U.S. in comparison to that of 1952. Evaluation of several newspapers of the U.S. in a comparative manner; Analysis of each of these newspapers' views over political affairs, specially Presidential campaigns, in the U.S.; Evaluation of several noted editors and columnists regarding journalistic intelligence and ethics; Arguments pertaining to the role and rights that newspapers should be found with; Reference of several journalism schools and their administrators' works in various political areas; Excerpts of various newspaper notes over current political issues across the world.

Presents several letters to the editor about several topics. Tricks of newspaper correspondents; Christian ideals and the war; Reply to a letter.

The article reports on the changes of the London Times. It states that the paper is known for its diffidence and for not giving its journalists bylines. It notes that after Lord Thomson of Fleet bought the sheet, the new Times showcased their achievement by releasing a four-page spread in the Sunday Times magazine. Thomson explains the implication of the published article of the new Times.

The article explores the realization of Lowry Bowman's, United Press International Inc. journalist, dream. It mentions that Bowman was determined to turn his dream of owning a small-town newspaper and become a country editor into reality because irked him that his children growing up playing in a parking lot. Even if Bowman went into debt to buy a farm in Washington County, Virginia where he started his own the paper, he still believe that he has made his dream come true.

The article profiles columnist Helen Vlachos for the magazine "Messimvrini" and published a picture magazine "Eikone" in Greece. Vlachos was exposed to business in which she joined her father at Kathimerini. In 1936, Vlachos participated the Berlin Olympics wherein she interviewed dictator leader Benito Mussolini in Libya, covered the earthquakes incidents in Greece and smaller paper prints from the government's political will.

Presents the profile of U.S.-based publisher William Randolph Hearst. Personal background of Hearst; Academic achievements of Hearst; Use of his newspaper "The San Francisco Examiner," in promoting political campaigns; Qualities of distraction in journalism promoted by Hearst; Contribution of Hearst to the field of journalism; Appointment of Sam Chamberlain as the managing editor of the periodical to promote Parisian sentiments as opposed to Anglo-Saxon tradition; Exposure of the connections between politicians and underworld in the periodical; Features of a campaign carried by he periodical against the Southern Pacific, as the dominant and most bitterly hated monopoly in California of that period; Purchase of the "New York Journal," by Hearst; Efforts of Hearst to increase the circulation of the Journal; Support of Hearst to U.S. orator and politician William Jennings Bryan; Amount of profit generated through all of his periodicals; Books recently published describing the life of Hearst.

For the first time in the U.S. history the press, which is described as playing a greater role in a democracy than government itself, is under sustained attack from the right, the reactionary or potentially fascist element in the U.S. Ever since the nation was established, however, the press has been attacked from other quarters. Many of critics have been journalists who felt strongly about ethics or lack of them, in their profession. One of the most sinister aspects of the movement known as McCarthyism is its effort to discredit and thereby to destroy the democratic elements in radio, TV, magazine and book-publishing circles, as well as the daily press.

The article presents information on Oswald Garrison Villard, editor and the owner of the periodical. Villard liked to think of himself as the simple product of two simple currents: the high-principled idealism of his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison and the high-principled realism of his railroad-building father, Henry Villard. He never understood the contradictions within the characters of both those stalwart Americans, or in himself. But it was those contradictions which made Villard the great editor that he was and Villard's periodical, the great paper that it was and is.

In March, 1937, the idea of publishing a magazine for the masses who had lost faith in the newspapers was discussed by three persons in Chicago. David A. Smart, young and rich, had made a success with a clothing-trade paper called Apparel Arts, Arnold Gingrich, novelist and art connoisseur, had years ago proposed a magazine for men only, the two had produced Esquire, now selling 600,000 copies a month, and later Coronets which thrived despite the depression and lack of advertising. The third man was Jay Cooke Allen, one of America's great journalists. Allen was to be editor. The magazine was to be called Ken-the Insiders' World. Ken's left-of-center policy was definitely settled when Smart, back in America, received a letter from Allen in Paris explaining the French Peoples Front.

The article focuses on the exposés and scandals revealed by newspaper columnist Jack Northman Anderson. It highlights the exposés of Anderson like the secret papers which show that the U.S. government has an anti-Indian bias on the war between Pakistan and India. It states that public officials were involved in the exposés such as Ambassador Arthur Watson, U.S. government personnel and Drew Pearson. It says that Anderson's muckraking impacts any Republicans and Democrats.

The article focuses on some of the contributors to the periodical, the Nation. Few periodicals in the history of journalism can claim, like the Nation, to have preserved their original features essentially unchanged during fifty years of continuous existence. The Nation of the present day may safely challenge comparison with the number, which, on July 6, 1865, was issued by journalist E.L. Godkin, as editor-in-chief and Wendell Phillips Garrison, as literary editor. Perhaps not many subsequent issues have surpassed the initial number in solidity, maturity or judgment and attractiveness of style. Half-a-dozen men, the most conspicuous of whom was Charles Eliot Norton, represented the imposing list of contributors, which in the course of time came to include the foremost names in American literature and science, in the first number. To him, to journalist Frederick Law Olmsted, and to journalist James Miller McKim, the founding of the Nation is principally due.